Should we change the the way we run contests? You decide.
I need a favour. Please discuss this at a club meeting before the end of August.
Africon is our own Spring Convention, and the purpose of the convention is to vote.
This is an American organisation and the Americans like democracy. So there’s lots of voting going on.
If you’re a President or VPE, you get one vote each. So each club has two votes. You carry the votes to the conference, which is why we need you to COME TO CONFERENCE.
It’s an opportunity to change stuff in Toastmasters District 74.
One thing I’d like to see discussed again is our contests.
We’re the only district in the world that does THREE contests in May and ONE contest in September. Everybody else does it TWO in May and TWO in October.
This is probably a hang-over from the days when we used to have FIVE contests in District. In those days we had a Bilingual contest as well.
Toastmasters changed the policy and limited us to only FOUR contests a year.
This means that in May, the club contest, area contest and division contests finish very late. It’s a long evening, and it can be quite cold as well (it happens in the late autumn, early winter).
So one proposal at the last AGM was to even it out a bit.
And we can do that.
But we need your vote!
Here’s some more information about Africon.
Your club budget should allow you to send a President and VPE to Conference.
I’ll be there! I hope to see you too!
We did discuss and debate this at the last council meeting, and we agreed to leave it as it is. Also, I don’t think we are the only district that does what we do. Many others do as well.